les ateliers varan II - towards the dream / towards fantasy

At a bend in the Rue de Charonne, I come across the letter car­ri­er start­ing his second daily round on foot. He wants me to accom­pa­ny him. It’s very, very … read more

A broth­er and sister, aged eleven and eight respec­tive­ly, are sur­vivors of a deadly cyclone on the island of Min­danao in Decem­ber 2011. With extreme mod­esty, Kiri films their child­hood draw­ings and games, in which mem­o­ries of the tragedy from which they escaped grad­u­al­ly emerge in frag­ments, how they sur­vived, and how their par­ents disappeared …

TUNGKUNG LANGIT is a title that refers to the god in the Panay epic whose tears become rain, but in the short film, two young chil­dren do not weep but offer an inti­mate per­spec­tive into their lives as they speak to each other about their expe­ri­ence during a typhoon that dev­as­tat­ed their city and left them orphans. Speak­ing to each other of their trauma through play and in the small­est of whis­pers before falling asleep becomes “a means by which these orphans heal”; the film rein­forces and envi­sions this healing.

Kiri Lluch Dalena is an award-win­ning visual artist and film­mak­er whose work address­es social and polit­i­cal injus­tices, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the Philip­pines. Founder of South­ern Taga­log Expo­sure, an asso­ci­a­tion of film makers, her direc­to­r­i­al film works include UNDER ONE SKY; RED SAGA; ECHO OF BULLETS; MEMORIES OF A FORGOTTEN WAR …

Hanoi, in the Japan­ese indus­tri­al zone: two young women who have left their vil­lage strug­gle to escape tem­po­rary work and short-term con­tracts. Becom­ing a real worker is a dream, which … read more